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Egypt: Military Trials of Fishermen an Affront to Justice

Amnesty International and the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights urge Egyptian authorities to stop trying civilians in military courts, ahead…

February 11, 2025

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Egypt: Prominent Human Rights Defender Hossam Bahgat Summoned for Interrogations

Egypt’s authorities must stop using the deeply flawed criminal justice system as a tool to target civil society activists.

January 16, 2025

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Egypt: President al-Sisi Must Reject New Asylum Law Which Violates Refugee Rights

This law would further undermine refugee rights in Egypt amid the ongoing crackdown on people seeking protection and safety.

December 3, 2024

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Amnesty International Reaction to U.S. Release of Conditioned Military Aid to Egypt

Amnesty International USA criticized the State Department’s decision to release the full amount of conditioned military assistance to Egypt and…

September 13, 2024

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Egypt: Authorities Escalate Attacks on Media Freedom Rounding Up a Journalist and a Cartoonist

Egyptian authorities subjected a journalist and a cartoonist to night-time house raids, enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention within a matter…

July 25, 2024

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Egypt: More than 100 Arbitrarily Detained Over Calls for Anti-Government Protests

Egyptian authorities have embarked on a new wave of arbitrary arrests against the backdrop of calls for anti-government protests amid…

July 18, 2024

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Egypt: Lift Travel Bans Imposed on Two Human Rights Lawyers

Amnesty International calls on the Egyptian authorities to immediately lift the travel bans imposed against prominent human rights lawyers Nasser…

July 9, 2024

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Egypt: Release Protesters and Activists Detained Over Palestine Solidarity

The Egyptian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release all those arbitrarily detained solely for independent activism in solidarity with Palestine…

June 14, 2024

NEW JERSEY, USA - JULY 30: Mohamed Soltan, an Egyptian-American human rights Advocate who was a political prisoner in Egypt from August, 2013 to May, 2015 is seen in New Jersey, United States on July 30, 2017. Mohamed was shot, imprisoned, tortured, and sentenced to life in prison on trumped-up and politically motivated charges. The U.S. government intervened at the highest levels and successfully facilitated his release and return to the United States on 31 May 2015. He stated that I tried forgetting the feeling of guilt that I was taking up the time and effort of the doctors in the makeshift hospital for a minor bullet wound when others, who are critically injured, needed their attention. I tried forgetting the pain I walked around with after getting the wound stitched up or the sound of bullets for 11 straight hours. I tried forgetting the smell of death, the rusty iron smell of blood and the smoky sharp smell of gunpowder as I laid on the floor unable to move, feeling debilitated, hopeless and helpless unable to scream or even utter a cry for help, just waiting for the bullet that missed my head to take me far away from that bloody war zone. I tried forgetting being shot at while running back to the hospital hours later to try and take refuge in a place that is suppose to have some sanctity. I tried forgetting the feeling of suffocation as a ton of people like me got shoved into the hospital. I tried forgetting the broken smile on little Ali's face as he sat next to me on his injured dad's lap, gasping for air. I tried forgetting Ali's dad twisting his wrist holding the makeshift paper fan he was using to air his suffocating son so he could do the same for me. I tried forgetting drifting in and out of consciousness as tear gas was shot inside crowded room full of injured people. I tried forgetting being in excruciating pain and suffocating at the same time. I tried forgetting being told that a safe exit was negotiated 11 hours later, but it was every man/woman f

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Biden Administration’s U.S.-Egypt Strategic Dialogue Was a Human Rights Failure - Joint Statement from International, Egyptian Human Rights Groups

In a joint statement released today signed by 12 international and Egyptian human rights organizations, Amnesty International USA and other…

November 23, 2021

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Waiving Restrictions on U.S. Military Assistance to Egypt Risks U.S. Complicity in Human Rights Abuses

Responding to reported deliberations by the Biden administration on invoking a national security waiver to release $300 million of restricted…

August 23, 2021

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Executives of surveillance companies Amesys and Nexa Technologies indicted for complicity in torture

Responding to the news that four executives of French surveillance companies Amesys and Nexa Technologies have been indicted for complicity…

June 22, 2021

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Launch of Mustafa Kassem Fellowship in Memory of U.S. Citizen Who Died in Egyptian Prison

Amnesty International USA is launching the Mustafa Kassem Fellowship named after the detained U.S. citizen who died in an Egyptian…

February 11, 2021